TIME OUT OF MIND 
  When I first realized that I was a record collector – which happened while I was still in high school, maybe even junior high – I had many "dreams" of what I wanted to accomplish.  I was an instant Bob Dylan fan from the first time I heard "Like a Rolling Stone", so naturally, I wanted to get all of the Dylan albums, and I started ordering those albums from Columbia Record Club soon thereafter.  That sounded easy enough to do back in the 1960's; but as it turned out, Dylan's first album came out a full 50 years ago, and he has been releasing albums continuously over that period.  I am probably still missing several of them, because I started to get careless about keeping up sometime in the 1980's; however, I have really been enjoying his recent releases, from Time out of Mind on.  (April 2012)  *    *    *  Bob Dylan (who was 17 at the time) attended Buddy Holly's show on January 31, 1959 – only three days before the airplane crash. Dylan spoke of the concert during his 1998 Grammy acceptance speech for Album of the Year for Time out of Mind: "And I just want to say that when I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory, and I was three feet away from him . . . and he LOOKED at me. And I just have some sort of feeling that he was – I don't know how or why – but I know he was with us all the time we were making this record in some kind of way."  As an aside, fellow Bob Dylan fans who might have quit buying his albums back in the 1960's and 1970's would do well to start with Time out of Mind – Dylan's next album, Love and Theft is even better – to see how great his newer music still is.  (June 2013/1)   |